It's Monday

Today is a collage of items. I have the day off so I am using it to catch up on little things. I went outside to clear up a garden space. A swarm of mosquitoes decided to feast on me. That is life: eat and be eaten all in the same instant.

We are one in this food chain.

Afterwards I was online... did my daily run about the world, reading a few articles. The daily doom and gloom of you are being watched. Which is all fine and true. It doesn't bother me. If we are all one, connected and true to ourselves, it means we also watch the watchers...

We are one in the information age

So I went to my desk to weed out what has accumulated there.

I have a pile of notes on my desk. Topics to write about, scraps of wisdom to share and ponder. Notes about how to live in a patient manner, notes discussing the merits of thinking in various manners, meditation techniques, philosophy bits on the nature of stories and being "right",

I just took that pile and pushed it all to the recycle bin. As a Taoist I have no special attachment to knowledge or having to write reports on it. Occasionally I talk to myself across time, Sometimes a note from the past will germinate as an idea in the future... More likely than not, the notes get mulched and I have moved on to my next whim in the moment. Today I mulched it all.

A Buddhist quote from a conversation with student last night comes to mind

We have all the knowledge we need within ourselves already


This is my story from today so far. I will go on now: talk to some other students, help sort out some tangles. Tackle a few chores and then to make dinner, To further explore my meaning of time within being present in these relationships.

The following thought comes to mind:

People seemingly at times reach for immortality by having as many relationships as possible, to spend as much time with others, in relationship. Since time is relationship: people express this in many ways. Some hop from relationship to relationship like a butterfly jumps between flowers, other relationships are as a redwood tree growing to reach beyond the sky.

Taoism teaches we are already immortal within our own life: no need to rush, no need to place unbalanced needs into any relationship.

Instead discover relationship is a reflection of our heart and how we hold ourselves. Take patience , kindness and "time" to work within relationship as art, since it is truly a reflection of our soul.

As quickly as the urge comes to ponder, it also goes away, not to hold onto clouds, but to skip as a stone, watch for a second, smile at the ripples...

and

Now Monday moves on...

To do some chores

To skip one moment to the next.

Namaste